Word: orients
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...generous bequest of the late Charles Martin Hall, of Niagara Falls, New York, is most fortuitous in view of the policy of expansion in recent years adopted by the Administrative Board, as well as conducive to broader understanding between Orient and Occident. In addition to physical growth as a geographical unit, in conjunction with the University of Peking, Harvard is now enabled to become a part of the great equalizing force of modern civilization. Whether or not the theory of the decline of Western culture is accepted, it must be agreed that both the Chinese and the American university will...
...Buddhist paintings, with three exceptions, do not belong to the Hoyt collection, and of course are not as important as those to be found in the Boston Museum, which are the best outside the Orient. But these are of very real and decorative value. The Nirvana of the Buddha, half obliterated as it is, contains some splendid passages of color and most vivid drawings of the animals that mourn about the death couch...
...Davis made a trip to the Orient & South Sea Islands. Among the Sunda Islands he recognized ideal climate for rubber tree cultivation. In Sumatra he developed rubber plantations. Others, notably Firestone Tire & Rubber, have followed since...
...Orient, Edgar B. Davis, U. S. businessman, became Edgar B. Davis, mystic. Eastern religion had touched his imagination; mysticism satisfied his soul...
Travellers to the Orient via the Suez Canal are dazzled by the huge electric billboard which informs at least 200,000 persons yearly that they ought to buy Sir Thomas Lipton...